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by adambyrtek 3212 days ago
> The problem with a "pure democracy" is that majority cannot be smarter than the top 5% individuals, so really good ideas almost never getting thorough the bulk of a bell curve.

Python is governed as "benevolent dictatorship" (with Guido as BDFL and maintainers as your "top 5%"), definitely not "pure democracy", so your argument doesn't really hold.

When it comes to the syntax, just because something is "very clever" doesn't mean that it's necessarily a good idea. Syntax changes should be carefully considered and introduced only if the benefit clearly outweighs the cost of extra complexity.

If you still believe that it's such a good idea then feel free to draft a PEP: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/